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E.'I. PURE DRAINA No; 496,537. Patented May 2,1893.

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ELW'IN I. PURRINGTON, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO S. J. PUTNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

DRAINAGE-SKID.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 496,537, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed October 10, 1892. Serial No. 448,305. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELWIN IRVING PURRING- TON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wakefield, in the county of Middlesex, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drainage- Skids, of which the following, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use my invention without further invention on his part.

In the drawings: Figure 1 represents the invention described in operation as supporting one bucket over the month of another, in order that the one may drain into the other; and Fig. 2 represents in perspective the apparatus by which the one bucket is supported upon the edge of the other.

There are a very great number of occasions in which it is desirable to drain one hollow vessel into another hollow vessel, and, for this purpose, to support the one to be drained, over the one which it is to drain into, at an incline suitable for drainage, and to so support the upper vessel in relation to the other that it is not liable to be displaced or disturbed, except intentionally. This is particularly important in paint cans, but is also a matter of serious concern in tar-barrels which are to be emptied into caldrons of roofers and in sugar and molasses or melado hogsheads, which are to be emptied into a tank when refining the contents.

The illustration given is of the apparatu used in the emptying of one paint can into another. The principle for emptying barrels into each other would be identically the same.

I make, as shown in Fig. 2, a skid capable of being supported from the side of the lower vessel, and of carrying the upper vessel at an incline to the walls of the lower vessel sufficiently great to allow proper drainage, and sufliciently far forward over the base of the lower vessel to prevent the apparatus from overturning. This drainage skid as a whole is lettered A. It consists of a cross-bar g, of two inclined ways e, of two inclined uprights din continuation of said ways, of two returns a, united tothe said uprights dby return bends,

and of two uprights a, united to said returns a by-return bends, and of two spreaders I) f which keep the parts e and a in fixed relations to each other. In the particular device shown there are hooks h and h at the lower end of the uprights a, respectively, for the reception of a brush, the hook h being larger than the hook h, in order to receive in the hook h, the body of the brush, and in the hook h the handle of the brush, so that the brush may be close by it it is needed to sweep anything out of the upper vessel.

The way in which this skid is to be used is this: In Fig. 1, B represents a can or tank. 0 represents another can or tank which it is desirable to empty into the can or tank B, and which requires some little time in order that drainage may be properly affected. The skid is hooked over the edge of the can or tank B, as shown, the verticals a being on the outside of the can or tank, the return bend connect ing the verticals a with the returns 0 is on the edge of the can or tank B, and its inner member adjacent to the return 0 is on the inside of the can or tank B, while the vertical a is on the outside of said can or tank B. The return runs from the return bend between 0 and a toward the center of the can or tank B, and is there united with the return bend between the return 0 and the upright d. The upright (1 serves as a stop to prevent the can or tank 0, which is to be drained, from slipping forward. The ways e serve as supports for the can or tank 0, the spreaders f b serve to keep the parts of this skid, including the ways and uprights, in fixed relations with each other.

If we analyze this skid into its Working parts we shall see that it consists of inclined ways, stops at the end of the inclined ways, returns from the stops, and reversed U -shaped bends, one end of each of which bends is united to the return, and the other end of each of which bends forms a vertical to be located upon the exterior of the can; and that in addition to this there may be brush support hooks at the ends of the exterior vertical. This entire apparatus so constructed is the skid A, which may or may not be combined with the brush supporting hooks h h.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The improved drainage skid A, adapted to arrange two tanks or vessels with relation to each other, one l3, a receiving vessel, and the other 0 a delivering vessel above the receiving vessel, and with its month over the central portion of the receiving vessel and with its sides inclined to the sides of the receiving vessel, and supported on the upper part of the walls of the receiving vessel,-the said drainage skid comprising inclined Ways 6, vertical stops (Z at the lower end of the ways, returns 0, return bends between the returns 0, and the uprights a, and uprights (1, whereby a clasp is made for engagement of the skid with the upper part of the receiving tank B, and the stops (Z at the ends of the ways 6 are thrownforward toward the center of the receiving tank B, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The drainage skid consisting of the inclined ways 8 the stops (Z, the returns 0 the uprights a, the return bends between the returns c and the uprights a and the hooks h h at the lower ends of the uprights a, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. The improved drainage skid consisting 0 of the ways 6, the stops (1, the returns 0, the

uprights a, the return bends between the uprights a and the returns 0 and the spreader f, in combination with the ways 6, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4:. The improved drainage skid consisting of the inclined ways 8, the stops (Z, the returns 0, the uprights a and the return bends between the uprights a and the returns 0, and the spreader b firmly attached to said uprights, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. A drainage skid for the purpose of supporting in an inclined position a delivering tank upon the walls of a receiving tank with the mouth of the delivery tank more or less centrally located over the mouth of the receiving tank, consisting of uprights a provided with return bends at their top to engage with the walls of the receiving tank,inclined Ways e to support the delivery tank and suitable connections between the inner end of the return bends connected with the uprights (t and the lower end of the ways 0 to space the same inward from the walls of the receiving tank, substantially as described.

ELVVIN I. PURRINGTON.

Witnesses:

D. U. GHADsEY, GEO. M. WHITE. 

